Discretion

In a world where discretion is currency, the deadliest secrets are hidden in plain sight.When couture designer Vivienne Sterling inherits an $850 million fortune after the suspicious death of her much older husband, New York society knows exactly what it wants to believe.She married him for the money.She killed him to get it.But Jonathan Sterling left his widow something far more dangerous than wealth: a secret capable of destroying some of the most powerful people in the world.Now Vivienne is building DISCRETION, an extraordinary Fifth Avenue fashion house designed for the kind of people who believe money can purchase privacy. Behind its silk, marble, mirrors and locked doors, however, lies another purpose.A trap.Because somewhere among the bankers, billionaires, politicians and old-money dynasties moving through its rooms are the people responsible for Jonathan's death.And they know Vivienne is looking for them.Then Damian Thorne arrives.Jonathan's estranged nephew is dangerous, disciplined and convinced that Vivienne may have played a role in his uncle's death. But when suspicion gives way to an uneasy alliance, Damian discovers something far worse: Jonathan's murder is only one thread in a conspiracy spanning fortunes, governments and decades.Someone has hidden the truth.Someone is willing to kill to keep it buried.And the closer Vivienne and Damian move toward that truth, the harder it becomes to distinguish protection from desire.From the gilded rooms of Manhattan to Paris, Zurich and the frozen heart of the Alps, Vivienne must turn the one thing her enemies continually underestimate into her greatest weapon:herself.Because the powerful have spent decades hiding their crimes behind money, influence and impeccable manners.Vivienne Sterling is about to tear the seams open.DISCRETION is a glamorous, high-stakes romantic conspiracy thriller about murder, inherited power, dangerous attraction, financial corruption and a woman who discovers that survival is only the beginning.